I recently purchased a few “young” coconuts from an international market that were not quite the same as other young coconuts I’ve purchased. It looks more similar to a mature coconut (round, with the hairlike husk), but has a white shell. The water is fairly sweet but the meat is thick and tougher than most young coconuts. Anyhow, I was considering shredding and dehydrating the meat for future use and was curious if anyone has experience doing so. It seems a difficult task to shred it as it has a bowl shape, and I was curious if you might advise on how best to do this. Also if anyone has had success with dehydrating coconut, does it store well (I presume refrigerated)?
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Actually, I just did this last night for the first time—BUT with young coconut meat instead of mature coconuts. You might be able to do the same thing if you can separate the meat from the shell. I put the young coconut meat in the food processor using the shredding disc (it seems near impossible to do by hand!) and then dehydrated @ 105 degrees for about 10 hours. I don’t know how this will be in comparison to dried shredded mature coconut in recipes, but that’s what I’m planning on using it for. I think storing any kind of coconut you’ve dehydrated in the fridge is your best bet.